Timetable for the Draft

Undrafted U.S. males, who have hardly known what to expect from day to day in the last 28 months, can now calculate their own timetables. According to the best private estimates of draft and manpower officials

> By the middle of next month all physically fit 18-and 19-year-olds, except some deferred to finish school, will be in uniform.

> The draft of childless married men, already started by many boards, will then become general. (Included in this category are men with children born more than nine months after Pearl Harbor.)

> Drafting of married men with children will begin in most areas by July. (Probable order: fathers of one child, then two, etc.)

> By the end of the year dependency will no longer be a factor in deferment. Next year all physically fit men between) 18 and 38, except irreplaceable workers in WMC's 35 "essential" industries, will be subject to call.

This strict timetable is not likely to be slowed except by three possible developments: 1) drafting of more Negroes, who are not yet in the Army in proportion to the size of the Negro population; 2) an official change of heart about the size of the Army required by the U.S. (see below); 3) an earlier victory than any official is yet willing to count on.

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